Veteran Liberal MP Philip Ruddock is viewed by his colleagues as the frontrunner to replace Bronwyn Bishop as the Speaker of the House of Representatives, after she resigned following sustained pressure over her travel expenses....

Two of the nation's most prominent Indigenous leaders, Noel Pearson and Patrick Dodson, are waiting to hear if the Prime Minister will support their new roadmap for a referendum on recognising Aboriginal Australians in the Constitution. The Opposition leader Bill Shorten has declared his ...

There are claims that cheating may have been rife at the biggest athletic events for more than a decade till 2012 and that authorities have stayed silent in the face of questionable blood test results. A large database of blood test results has been leaked to European media outlets and been analysed ...

Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull says that the Speaker Bronwyn Bishop was right to resign. Mr Turnbull says there are some ambiguous areas in the entitlements system but that 'the fundamental principle is often one of common sense.' Mr Turnbull also discussed the Government's project ...

Bronwyn Bishop resigns as Speaker of the House of Representatives following sustained pressure over her travel expenses as Prime Minister Tony Abbott announces a "root and branch review" of the entitlements system....

The finest opal ever unearthed will be publicly displayed for the first time at the South Australian Museum in Adelaide as part of an exhibition created to celebrate this year's centenary of opal mining in Australia....